making your home less of a target once the lights go out.

[Mortblanc]

Almost everything in this article was a direct contradiction to reality.

An apparently abandoned building with quarantine signs is getting burned down as fast as I can throw a molatov cocktail!

Sealing off a house with plywood and black plastic over the windows sounds good when you are sitting in air conditioned comfort in an electric lit room, but the writer claims to live in Kansas! They have summer temps of 100f+ and winter temps of -40f.

A rotting gut pile in the front yard? Can we say vermin, insects, swarms of flies?

Just more impossible, untested and thoughtless dribble passed off as 'survival advice".